The Cost of Staying
Valerie should have left.
She should have walked away, out that door, and never looked back.
But she didn’t.
No, she stood frozen, staring up at Adrian, his presence smothering and yet heady, his words still ringing in her ears.
You stay because you want to.
She hated that he was right.
Ha...
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Chapters
1. Pilot
2. I’d Rather Die
3. New Identity
4. Fated Encounter
5. Loyal And Righteous
6. Belinda’s Tantrum 
7. I Don’t Want Her To Stay
8. Valerie Retaliates
9. Party With The Regal’s
10. At The Party
11. Ultimatum
12. The Wedding Night Or The Escape Plan?
13. A Breaking Point
14. Shadows In The Dark
15. A Fragile Balance
16. The Gravity Of Expectations
17. The Fine Line Between Duty And Desire
18. Unspoken Truths And Breaking Points
19. The Barrier Breaker
20. Unspoken Confessions
21. Echoes of The Past
22. A Battle of Wills
23. A Forced Truce
24. The Fractured Boundaries
25. A Dangerous Game
26. At The Brink of Control
27. Crash And Confess
28. The Loss of Limitation
29. Lines Were Drawn, Lines Were Crossed
30. Frozen To The Breaking Point
31. The Calm Before The Storm
32. The War Begins
33. Trapped
34. The Battle of Breakfast
35. The Cost of Silence
36. The Lies We Tell
37. The Thin Slop Between Love And War
38. The Game Begins
39. A Deal With The Devil
40. A War To Fight For
41. No Easy Way Out
42. When The Past Comes A Knocking
43. The Point of Branching
44. On The Verge of Shattering
45. A Game of Control
46. The Price of Rebellion
47. The school of Hard Knocks
48. A Dangerous Game
49. The Breathing Point
50. Possession And Punishment
51. A Perilous Possession
52. A Battle of Wills
53. The Tipping Point
54. Bound by Chains
55. A Caged Bird
56. Shackled in Gold
57. No Way Out
58. The Depths of Control
59. The Listen of a Choice
60. Walking The Edge
61. Heavy is the Head That Wears The Crown
62. A Lesson in survival
63. Pride and Power
64. Driven to the Brink
65. Making a Deal with the Devil
66. The Chain Around Her Neck
67. The Unbearable Weight of Power
68. The Dance With The Devil
69. No Room for Error
70. A Price for Every Blunder
71. No Room for Mercy
72. A Dangerous Line
73. A Line She Must Not Cross
74. The Breaking Point
75. The Illusion of Freedom
76. A Deal with the Devil
77. Within A Dangerous Proximity
78. A Game of Power
79. Bound by Chains
80. The Fine Line Between Love And Control
81. Walking a knife’s Edge
82. Two Days Left
83. Duress and Control
84. A Dangerous Gamble
85. A War of Minds
86. The Unraveling of Control
87. Nowhere to Run
88. A Strangers Mercy
89. A Place to Lay Between
90. No Free Lunch
91. A Devil’s Deal
92. The Weight of Choices
93. Baptism by Fire
94. Lines That Blur
95. The Most Dangerous Area
96. A Dangerous Line
97. A Line Too Thin
98. A Trip into the Unknown
99. A Line Crossed
100. From which Flight to Paris
101. Parisian Tension
102. A Dangerous Dance
103. Dressing for War
104. Dinner and Deception
105. The Aftermath of Power Plays
106. Losing Ground
107. A Game She Didn't See Coming
108. The Devil’s Bargain
109. Checkmate
110. An Enigmatic Turn or Another Gimmick
111. The Chains That Bind
112. A Battle of Wills
113. Returning to the Lion’s Den
114. A Dangerous Collision
115. The Non-choice Choice
116. The Cage that has No Key
117. Shackles of Gold
118. Bound in Chains You Can't See
119. The Thin Line Between Hate and Surrender
120. The Edge of No Return
121. The Illusion of Choice
122. Phantoms of the Past
123. No Walls, No Walls
124. Running in Circles
125. Unfinished Business
126. Collision Course
127. A Cage With Golden Bars
128. A Stage Set For War
129. The Reckoning
130. A Dance with the Past
131. A Fight Between Wills
132. Lines That Blur
133. On the Brink of a Decision
134. A Line Crossed
135. A Dangerous Game
136. Ghosts That Don’t Stay Dead
137. The Fine Line Between Love and War
138. The Tempest Under the Deep
139. Knives out truths
140. A Battle on All Fronts
141. Walking a Tightrope
142. Truth in the shadows
143. What He Had Never Told Her
144. The Heavy Burden of Betrayal
145. Caught in the Crossfire
146. Riding the fine line between fact and Fiction
147. The Crossfire
148. Walking on Fire
149. Trial by Fire
150. No More Escape
151. No Safe Place
152. No Way Out
153. The Lies We Tell Ourselves
154. A Line She Can’t Cross
155. The Cost of Staying
156. The Brink of Chaos
157. War at the Doorstep
158. A War She Didn’t Choose
159. No Safe Heaven
160. A Red Line in the Sand
161. No Turning Back
162. The Tipping Point
163. No Way Out
164. The Breaking Point
165. No Turning Back
166. Tipping Point
167. The Breaking Point
168. No More Running
169. The Breaking Point
170. No Turning Back
171. The Edge of Control
172. Shadows of Strength
173. Uncharted Ground
174. Fractured Normalcy
175. Knotted Tides and Unseen Truths
176. The Burden of Decisions
177. Reflecting Resilience
178. The Line Drawn
179. The Pulse of Decision
180. The Gathering Storm
181. The Bait Set
182. The Thread Unravels
183. The Trap Springs
184. Reaping the Reckoning
185. The Aftermath’s Echo
186. The Quiet Rebuild
187. The Shattered Calm
188. The Hunt Begins Again
189. A Reckoning in the Dark
190. The Final Strand
191. The Final Fracture
192. The Razors of The Abyss
193. The Dawn of Reckoning
194. The Weight of New Life
195. Shadows of the Unborn
196. The Reverberation of Wednesday
197. Warehouse Fluke
198. The Last Whisper
199. The Fragile Fortress
200. The Unseen Blade
201. The Cell’s Confession
202. The Homecoming
203. The Quiet Before
204. The First Echoes
205. Storm of Names
206. The Nesting Instinct
207. The Birth of Elias
208. The Edge of the Mirror
209. The weight of Shadows
210. The Unseen Fracture
211. The Ghost Returns
212. The Hunt Begins
213. The Warehouse Reckoning
214. The Aftermath’s Echo
215. The Boardroom Ascension
216. The Dawn of Trust
217. The Legacy of Shift
218. The Boardroom triumph
219. The Homecoming Forge
220. The Family Anchor
221. The Milestone Glow
222. The Unexpected Storm
223. The Storm’s Edge
224. The Storm’s End
225. The Dawn of Forever
226. The Final Dawn
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